Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

He actually backed down from that and Nick Sant and Rex are two separate people.

Funny how that backtracking neither made its way to Wookiepedia nor got announced on social media - unless I missed something. Then again, that would be too of me to expect. What was I thinking?

My knowledge of Hera and Rex being at Endor comes from Rebels' epilogue narration.

What even is this? Real Leia probably wouldn't let the Ewoks eat them, but she'd almost certainly shoot them, or at least keep them captive until they left Endor.

That's Forces of Destiny for you - snippets that offer nothing of value in the name of wokeness and the whole "The Force is female" catch phrase.

The sad part is that when someone told me there would be a new series of small clips that filled in the gaps - what would become FoD - I thought the idea was interesting. I changed my mind after seeing two of the first clips.

I'm amazed this guy doesn't get more criticism. Is it because he's not putting in fart fetish shit like Blacker and Acker or being a soysperg like Wendig?

Because a lot of younger fans loved Clone Wars and/or Rebels for various reasons, they think Dave Filoni is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

*Screams internally* it's so awful...

Don't know how you could have expected otherwise...

 

[Zaryiu]

With all the bullshit I've seen in this thread about Dave Filoni, like his Mary Sue Ahsoka, time travel, and trashing Grievous and Thrawn, I'm amazed this guy doesn't get more criticism. Is it because he's not putting in fart fetish shit like Blacker and Acker or being a soysperg like Wendig?

In my case it's because i try not to care because it lessen the pain

Don't know how you could have expected otherwise...

A man can dream

 

[BScCollateral]

With all the bullshit I've seen in this thread about Dave Filoni, like his Mary Sue Ahsoka, time travel, and trashing Grievous and Thrawn, I'm amazed this guy doesn't get more criticism. Is it because he's not putting in fart fetish shit like Blacker and Acker or being a soysperg like Wendig?

Because Dave Filoni's Clone Wars, for all its flaws, is overall the best Star Wars content released since (ironically) the 2003 2d animation miniseries.

It's not brilliant, and I've never been tempted to buy it, but it's basically competent storytelling. Land of the blind, one eyed man, etcetera.

 

[Chester Rigby]

This bugs me so much about modern stories. Like the authors assumes you know how the tropes go and so don't bother to go through the trouble of actually putting in the connective tissue. "Oh you know this guy and girl will fall in love, let's not bother having them do anything romantic beforehand."

Wanted to say this in the Better Call Saul thread, but oh well: in short, those Disney assholes should learn from what Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould are doing with the Breaking Bad prequel if they're attempting to expand an established fictional universe.

Also, I dare to say that, perhaps, a Han Solo film written by Gilligan would have been glorious.

-sigh-

 

[TinCan Wizard]

member when Roundhead Johnson directed Ozymandias?

 

[SuperSheep]

Funny how that backtracking neither made its way to Wookiepedia nor got announced on social media - unless I missed something. Then again, that would be too of me to expect. What was I thinking?

It was on Wookiepedia, that's how I knew.

https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Rex#Behind_the_scenes

"Dave Filoni speculated that Rex might be one of the members of the Endor strike team from the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. "I really do think that Rex is that guy on Endor", he said, "I really do. Why else is there a bearded old guy on Endor, Tano? Why? It makes no sense. If you don't want that to happen, do you know what that means? I'm gonna make that happen, I'm getting like Palpatine, I'm getting power crazy".[92]In Legends, the character was identified as Nik Sant.[93] The Rebels series finale, which aired on March 5, 2018, confirmed that Rex did fight in the Battle of Endor, though it did not confirm whether he and Sant were the same character.[85] Six months after the episode's airing, Filoni revealed in an interview with IGN he ultimately choose to not canonize the theory because he felt that laying down an already established character prior to his coming to Star Wars wasn't correct, adding that Rex could have been present at Endor and not be Sant, even though some fans could choose to believe that Rex and Sant are the same individual while other choose to not do so"

 

[Creep3r]

I recall Chuck Wendig did something similar by having the characters who flew alongside Lando within the Death Star be retconned into his shitty OCs from the Aftermath novels. Except unlike Filoni, he didn't backtrack on that.

Edit: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Norra_Wexley

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Filoni revealed in an interview with IGN he ultimately choose to not canonize the theory because he felt that laying down an already established character prior to his coming to Star Wars wasn't correct, adding that Rex could have been present at Endor and not be Sant, even though some fans could choose to believe that Rex and Sant are the same individual while other choose to not do so"

I'm not sure how i missed that passage before - but I gladly stand corrected in this specific instance. I'm actually impressed - albeit minimally - that he chose to backtrack out of respect for an unnamed OT character given his past tendencies to blaze his own canon with little regard for the side effects it caused.

He still gets a big for introducing time travel into the SWU, so it all offsets in the end.

I recall Chuck Wendig did something similar by having the characters who flew alongside Lando within the Death Star be retconned into his shitty OCs from the Aftermath novels. Except unlike Filoni, he didn't backtrack on that.

What is it with these nuWars hack writers retconning characters for their own use/benefit, only to use them so poorly that reasonable fans wish the author left well enough alone (apart from the obvious :autism?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

What is it with these nuWars hack writers retconning characters for their own use/benefit, only to use them so poorly that reasonable fans wish the author left well enough alone (apart from the obvious :autism?

They want to have their own super cereal badasses within the Star Wars setting that have their own amazing set of accomplishments, however there's only a small number of notable instances where something large was accomplished - like the battle of Endor or the attack on the Death Star.
They could make a character that did something major that the author claims to have moved along the plot in a critical situation outside of the movies, but the reader would instantly see through the smoke and mirrors of inventing a situation that is conveniently solved by an author's pet character.

When they write their story and make their OC-do-not-steal some previously unnamed rando that happened to be present in some specific scene (such as a pilot that happened to be present at the destruction of the 2nd Death Star), they think they somehow make that character more legit and valid. And they can pretend they had a big impact on the story of the movie. Haven't read a book about such a character, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least one scene where they valliantly swoop in to take out an enemy that was just about to shoot an important movie-character, to basically insist that they saved the movie-protag's asses off screen.

 

[Creep3r]

Haven't read a book about such a character, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least one scene where they valliantly swoop in to take out an enemy that was just about to shoot an important movie-character, to basically insist that they saved the movie-protag's asses off screen.

Pretty much the Dr. Aphra comics and Wendig's books in a nutshell. Seriously, nothing would be possible without Aphra and Norra Wexley apparently. Also, anyone remember the shitty Boba Fett OC "do not steal" I mentioned a few pages back who was a "super strong noble gay cyborg who loves justice and can fight gods" in a relationship with a headless freak? Well Dr. Aphra's droid, Shadow the C-3PO killed him and Aphra killed his boyfriend. A pretentious bitch killing two freaky-looking token gay guys would probably be enough to piss off the tumblr/twitter drones in the Disney fandom if Marvel hadn't recently made her a lesbian too. https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tam_Posla

But don't worry. Some mushrooms possessed by Kreia's force ghost are reviving him as we speak into an even worse abomination.

This guy really is the new Boba Fett except with a less cool comeback and basically being worse in every other regard. Boba Fett used to actually appear in the shitty Disney comics before getting replaced by this guy. And the Solo movie also featured him in the background instead of Boba for whatever reason. That along with 3PO and R2 being slowly faded out and all the main heroes getting usurped as the heroes by the new trilogy wannabes and the likes of Aphra makes it all the more clear that Disney really do believe what Kylo Ren said in regards to killing the past. Only one left is Chewbacca because he's a fuzzy mascot with no personality now.

Edit: Forgot to mention that Disney finally released a trailer for their new SW theme park rides. One is about the Millennium Falcon and as I suspected, Solo/Ford will not be involved with this, not even Rey or Chewie. The audience pilots the ship itself by themselves or so the trailer claims. That actually sounds remotely more promising than the rest of the park since you don't have to sit behind Rey or any sequel characters and it lets you sit in the captain's seat. The question is what sort of elements can this ride possibly offer that Star Tours doesn't already do aside from sitting in the Falcon? But hey if this at least allows you to fly over Tatooine, then maybe this shitty park will at least have one decent thing to look forward to, but that's likely not the case since the story is Solo's ship is still on Jakku and you have to do a delivery mission for the blobfish guy... The second ride is a First Order vs Resistance themed one which looks pretty dull.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Pretty much the Dr. Aphra comics and Wendig's books in a nutshell. Seriously, nothing would be possible without Aphra and Norra Wexley apparently. Also, anyone remember the shitty Boba Fett "do not steal" I mentioned a few pages back who was a "super strong noble gay cyborg who loves justice and can fight gods" in a relationship with a headless freak? Well Dr. Aphra's droid, Shadow the C-3PO killed him and Aphra killed his boyfriend. A pretentious bitch killing two freaky-looking token gay guys would probably be enough to piss off the tumblr/twitter drones in the Disney fandom if Marvel hadn't recently made her a lesbian too. https://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tam_Posla

But don't worry. Some mushrooms possessed by Kreia's force ghost are reviving him as we speak into an even worse abomination.
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"Mushrooms possessed by Kreia's force ghost." BRB, gonna watch some Jojo and watch this kind of batshit get done properly. (Putting Araki in charge of SW would be such an improvement from what we have now.)

Though one thing that strikes me about this is the parasitic nature of the whole thing- if they want their OC Donut Steel characters to be the stars of the show, why not do that? Disney owns the franchise and is letting them run it- why not make Tam Posla: A Star Wars Story: The Butt Stuff Chronicles? Because they need to keep cashing in on the characters that people actually like, which are Han, Luke, Leia, Boba, et al. So Wendig's Poochy characters will never be the stars of the show, so they get clumsily slotted into cracks (real or imagined) in the original story.

 

[Zaryiu]

The day I consider Woke Wars is the day I'm dead and six feet under, what keeps me sane is that "Get Woke, Get Broke" is unavoidable for the chucklesfucks involved

 

[XYZpdq]

The audience pilots the ship

Probably like Mission Space where you sit there and can push buttons that don't really do anything to affect anything you see happen.

 

[BScCollateral]

Probably like Mission Space where you sit there and can push buttons that don't really do anything to affect anything you see happen.

Or like an Airbus airliner where the control inputs are "averaged out" so with a large enough group of pilots the sum of all control input is always going to be zero.

 

[Antipathy]

Isn't it amazing how Disney turned a big galaxy full of life and alien issues into a tiny backyard where the only problem is the Patriarchy?

 

[Kyria the Great]

Isn't it amazing how Disney turned a big galaxy full of life and alien issues into a tiny backyard where the only problem is the Patriarchy?

A large galaxy of possibilities out there and all they can see is what is right in front of them, sad really and rather poetic of Woke Wars and Social Justice Nerd Culture in general.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

Unsurprisingly TFA missed another opportunity to not be shameless plagiarism of ANH.

 

[Flexo]

A large galaxy of possibilities out there and all they can see is what is right in front of them, sad really and rather poetic of Woke Wars and Social Justice Nerd Culture in general.

May as well spread the word here too. If any of you meatbags misses the old, fun star wars, one fan is going to put up his own efforts.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/starquest/

 

[Creep3r]

Okay... So apparently Padme may be in IX because Kylo wants to revive her to please Vader's split dark half ghost which is why the new Vader comic has such a fixation with this... I guess they really did mean it when they really wanted to overdo it on the nostalgia factor by forcing in as many cameos as possible. My Gosh. Just when I think this film can't be a bigger shitshow, something comes up that tries to prove me wrong. Hindenburg launch, here I come!

Unsurprisingly TFA missed another opportunity to not be shameless plagiarism of ANH.

Plagiarism and hollow nostalgia is all it is and all it can offer apparently.